If the distance from the Earth to the Sun were doubled, What would happen to the gravitational pull

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If the distance from the Earth to the Sun were doubled, What would happen to the gravitational pull

[From: ] [author: ] [Date: 11-05-06] [Hit: ]

org/wiki/Gravitational_force has it a few inches into the article-It will be a quarter (1/4) of what it was before.-It would change!......

Please explain it CLEARLY.

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It will be 1/4 as great. Gravitational force changes as the square of the distance between the two objects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_force has it a few inches into the article

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It will be a quarter (1/4) of what it was before.

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It would change!

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it would be less

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